Texas · Private foundation
The Paulos Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $307k
- Granted FY2023
- 16
- Grants FY2023
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The Paulos Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Paulos Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $307k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2023
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 42
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 2
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 19% of the organizations The Paulos Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 16 | $307k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $698k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 38 | $456k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 39 | $992k | 28% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $741k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 42 | $868k | 24% |
| FY2017 | 36 | $477k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Day Resource Center for Homeless | $320,000 | 7 | 4% |
| Center for Transforming Lives | $280,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Westlake United Methodist Church | $258,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Parish Episcopal School | $160,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Helping Restore Ability | $160,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Center for Public Policy Priorities | $95,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Dallas Theater Center | $90,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Dallas Symphony Association | $82,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Dallas Urban Debate Alliance | $78,500 | 5 | 3% |
| The Dallas Opera | $76,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 49 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Paulos Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · Meadows Foundation Inc · Bnsf Railway Foundation · The Rosewood Foundation · Amon G Carter Foundation · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · The Dallas Foundation
How this is measured
About The Paulos Foundation
- How much does The Paulos Foundation give?
- The Paulos Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $307,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 42 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Paulos Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (22%), Human Services (21%), Housing & Shelter (21%).
- Who are The Paulos Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Day Resource Center for Homeless ($320k), Center for Transforming Lives ($280k), Westlake United Methodist Church ($258k).
- Does The Paulos Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Paulos Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Paulos Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, Texas Instruments Foundation, Austin Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Paulos Foundation based?
- The Paulos Foundation is based in TX.
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